Maurice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> To be successful the priority must also be adults - after all they
> have the greatest influence over children.
 
Seems to me that interactivity is another form of education, but
one that is much less age-based.
 
Europeans often say that we in the United States don't have a very
good attitude about children, we isolate them from adults too
much and treat them like personal property rather than as part of
the whole community.
 
Do European museums put as much emphasis on museum education aimed at
children as we do? I've never noticed any, but then I wasn't looking.
In New York the 20-somethings from Europe I run into (we seem to be
a magnet for the French lately) seem much more mature than Americans
the same age. Or am I just getting old?
 
Robbin Murphy
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